Word: governor
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...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (unaffiliated) sidestepped the debate with a curt "no comment." Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Disciples of Christ) said nothing. California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation of birth is something that I am not prepared to answer. I certainly don't believe this country has the right to impose upon any country any particular ideas it may have, nor [to] interfere with the religious practices of other countries...
...issue of TIME has been called to my attention, in which it is stated: ''The Democratic leaders of the big key states are still unimpressed, and some, notably Pennsylvania's Governor Dave Lawrence, are against the [Senator] Kennedy [presidential] candidacy...
...Governor Harrisburg...
Long Division. In mid-February, John D. reopened the mills with nonunion workers, mostly farmers recruited from as far away as Virginia. Despite the presence of more than 100 state highway patrolmen, violence flared at the mill gates. Coming in the role of peacemaker in March, Governor Luther H. Hodges, himself a onetime textile executive, helped to achieve a settlement, publicly accused Cooper of "misleading" him when the settlement blew up. In May, behind the bayonets of 300 National Guardsmen, the mills resumed three-shift production, with fewer than 100 union members at work...
Soundly beaten in his candidacy for Governor of California last year, Bill Knowland slipped quietly into working harness on the Tribune, which has been in his family for 44 years. The Tribune seemed more than ready for a firm Knowland hand on the editorial side. At 86, Joseph Russell Knowland. Bill's father and the Tribune's publisher, was pretty well out of action. Bill Knowland's brother Russ, 57, was running the business end. And Bill's son Joe, 29. while willing, still needed editorial seasoning. Leaderless, the Tribune had drifted into some bad habits...